Ubuntu software crash and software updater crash as well

An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.

Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following error message:

'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, Eroblem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i1 8n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'